Topic GDP 2.0

Some of our most prominent economic statistics measure change in the total output of the U.S. economy. But this single number approach to economic progress rings hollow with many workers, who wonder why they aren’t seeing prosperity in their own lives. The goal of our GDP 2.0 project is to break down these monolithic numbers and understand how the economy is performing for Americans of different income levels, different regions of the country, and more.

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New research doesn’t overturn consensus on rising U.S. income inequality

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GDP 2.0: Measuring who prospers when the U.S. economy grows

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Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to modernize federal data collection and improve measurements of U.S. economic inequality

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New digital tools demonstrate the promise of measuring well-being in the United States

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Coronavirus Recession

Structural racism and the coronavirus recession highlight why more and better U.S. data need to be widely disaggregated by race and ethnicity

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Disaggregating growth

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Coronavirus Recession

For an equitable recovery, federal relief to deal with the coronavirus recession must be transparent to the U.S. public

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Coronavirus Recession

The coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of disaggregating U.S. data by race and ethnicity

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Equitable Recovery

The coronavirus recession and economic inequality: A roadmap to recovery and long-term structural change

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Coronavirus Recession

U.S. Census Day 2020: The history and the challenges amid the coronavirus recession

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New distributional snapshot of U.S. personal income is a landmark federal statistical product

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Gross Domestic Product sets the tone of the U.S. economic debate while leaving working- and middle-class families behind

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Whose News? Class-Biased Economic Reporting in the United States

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Vision 2020

Equitable Growth launches Vision 2020 book with discussion of research and policy ideas

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New measurement for a new economy

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President and CEO Heather Boushey shares insights on inequality and growth via Medium

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To move beyond GDP, put alternatives front and center

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Nobel laureates, former Fed chair, two former CEA chairs–58 scholars endorse the Measuring Real Income Growth Act of 2019

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